Kasenda, Benjamin https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0110-8585
Liu, Junhao
Jiang, Yu
Gajewski, Byron
Wu, Cen
von Elm, Erik
Schandelmaier, Stefan
Moffa, Giusi
Trelle, Sven
Schmitt, Andreas Michael
Herbrand, Amanda K.
Gloy, Viktoria
Speich, Benjamin
Hopewell, Sally
Hemkens, Lars G.
Sluka, Constantin
McGill, Kris
Meade, Maureen
Cook, Deborah
Lamontagne, Francois
Tréluyer, Jean-Marc
Haidich, Anna-Bettina
Ioannidis, John P. A.
Treweek, Shaun
Briel, Matthias
Funding for this research was provided by:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (320030_133540/1)
Article History
Received: 8 December 2019
Accepted: 9 August 2020
First Online: 21 August 2020
Ethics approval and consent to participate
: We explicitly do not collect any patient identifying information or clinical outcome data (e.g., mortality); information identifying trial sites will not be disclosed. The research ethics committee North West and Central Switzerland (EKNZ) appraised this project (EKNZ-2017-0005) concluding that the project fulfills all standards for ethical research conduct and that it does not require ethical approval as per the Swiss Federal Act on Research Involving Humans, Article 2.
: Not applicable.
: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.